Firefox 19.0 Beta 1 for Linux Is Available for Download

The latest version of the Mozilla Firefox browser can be downloaded from Softpedia

A few days after the launch of the stable version of Mozilla Firefox, a new Beta version of the popular Internet browser has been made available to the public.

Mozilla Firefox 19.0 Beta 1 has been chosen for the implementation of a very important feature, more precisely a built-in PDF viewer.

Up until now, this particular feature was taken care of by third-party plug-ins, but most of the time they were using proprietary closed source code that could potentially expose users to security vulnerabilities.

Andreas Gal and Chris Jones, a couple of developers for Firefox, started a research project called PDF.js. The idea proved to be a good one and it evolved quickly into a full PDF viewer.

Highlights of Mozilla Firefox 19.0 Beta 1 For Linux:

• The application will offer to reset the Awesomebar search provider, if it has been changed by third-party software or through about:config;

• The canvas elements can export their content as an image blob using canvas.toBlob();

• Various startup performance improvements have been implemented;

• The debugger now supports pausing on exceptions and hiding non-enumerable properties;

• Remote Web Console is available for connecting to Firefox on Android or Firefox OS;